Professional traders in cultural property will not import, export or transfer the ownership of this property when they have reasonable cause to believe it has been stolen, illegally alienated, clandestinely excavated or illegally exported

I would also draw attention - as I did in 2007 - to the Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act 2003 [detail]. Some key elements:

"A person is guilty of an offence if he dishonestly deals in a cultural object that is tainted, knowing or believing that the object is tainted."

There is a section on the Meaning of “tainted cultural object”.

"It is immaterial whether ... the removal or excavation was done in the United Kingdom or elsewhere".

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David Gill is Professor of Archaeological Heritage and Director of Heritage Futures at the University of Suffolk. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was subsequently part of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Swansea University. He holds the Archaeological Institute of America's Outstanding Public Service Award (2012).